dispossess
verb (used with object)
to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
dispossessor
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a word derived from
dispossess.
Example Sentences
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Ah, sir!" cried Albert, "is it then I, the dispossessor, who has made this trouble? is it not, on the contrary, the dispossessed!
From The Widow Lerouge by Émile Gaboriau
No one refused to move for this dispossessor as they had for the governor; thousands of homeless fled from it.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
The belated efforts to redress these wrongs meet with hostility and the atavistic fears of the dispossessor.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
The dispossession of the dispossessor is, as it were, in this case the automatic product of historical reality in its material external form....
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels
The condition attained by the dispossession of the dispossessor is here shown as the restoration of individual private property resting however on a basis of social property in the land and means of production.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels
